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[–]Horror-SwordfishI don't get how flairs work 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I hate these disingenuous arguments because it's comparing apples to oranges. In some ways, they are similar (apples and orange are both fruit, and both grow on trees, for example) but in a lot of ways, they are very different (an apple pie and an orange pie are not the same pie). I feel like one of the big differences is pushing all of this on school kids. There wasn't a "gay agenda to indoctrinate kids" because there wasn't a gay agenda to indoctrinate kids. There's no evidence for that. On the other hand, there's plenty of evidence of teachers indoctrinating kids into gender ideology and identity politics. There's just no comparison to be made here.

As an aside, I also hate that all of these arguments typically end with, "If you disagree with gender ideology nonsense and think it has no place in public schools, you don't want trans people to exist!" No one gives two shits about you existing. You exist whether I like it or not, so let's chill with the histrionics. I can't even think of once that I have been in a gender-critical space and heard anything even akin to "let's kill all trans people." It's generally along the lines of, "I don't give a shit if you're trans, but I'm sick of being bullied and seeing other people be bullied and seeing the people in charge kowtow to every whim of TRAs." There's a huge difference between those two things.